Category Archives: Lecture

Arkansas native, FERC Commissioner – the Honorable Colette Honorable speaks today at Clinton Center

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coletteArkansan Colette Honorable was confirmed as a Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and sworn in earlier this year.  Today at noon at the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, she makes her first speech in Arkansas since assuming this new position.

Prior to serving as a FERC Commissioner, she served on the Arkansas Public Service Commission.  From January 2011 until January 2015, she was chair of the PSC.  As Chairman of the Arkansas PSC, Commissioner Honorable oversaw an agency charged with ensuring safe, reliable and affordable retail electric service. She participated in rate case proceedings, plant acquisitions, transmission buildout applications, regional transmission efforts and other transactions to ensure the reliability of the Arkansas grid and diversity in generation in the state. During Commissioner Honorable’s time at the PSC, Arkansas led the South and Southeast in comprehensive energy efficiency programs, and electric rates were consistently among the lowest in the nation.

Her remarks today are entitled “The Clean Power Plan and the Evolving Power Grid.”

FERC is an independent agency that regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil. FERC also reviews proposals to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals and interstate natural gas pipelines as well as licensing hydropower projects.

Honorable is past president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and is known by her peers as a fair, pragmatic, moderate and hardworking leader who is able to build consensus across party lines for common goals. Honorable represented NARUC on an array of issues ranging from pipeline safety to reliability and resilience efforts, and diversity. She testified before Congress on multiple occasions and advocated for infrastructure development to ensure safety and efficiency, increased reliability and resilience efforts, and diversity of energy and the energy workforce.

A native of Arkansas, she is a graduate of the University of Memphis and received a Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law.

Women Entrepreneurs celebrated at Mosaic Templars today

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Women Phenomenal: A Celebration of Women Entrepreneurs – Join Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in celebration of some of central Arkansas’s phenomenal women in honor of National Women’s History Month. The program runs from 11:30am until 1:00pm. 

Enjoy lunch and a candid conversation with a group of business savvy leaders and entrepreneurs who will share their stories of success and struggles as they found their path in the business world. 

Special guests include: Leanna Godley, founder and president of Goddess Products, Inc.; Yolanda Hughes, owner, RSVP Catering; Ashley Jones, owner, Ashley Ann’s Event Planning Service and Patricia Nunn Brown, director, Arkansas Economic Development Commission’s Small and Minority Business Division. 

The event will be moderated by MTCC Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of “PowerPlay” magazine, Sericia Cole.

Lunch is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Contact Tameka Lee at 501.683.3620 or tameka@arkansasheritage.org to reserve your seat.

Josh Ruxin discusses how creating a restaurant revitalized a community 

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Today at noon at the Clinton School, Josh Ruxin will discuss his book A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope and a Restaurant in Rwanda.

In the book, Ruxin recounts the trials of rebuilding a village from the ashes, then constructing a restaurant from scratch.  He makes the case that entrepreneurship and the private sector are the keys to long-term sustainability in Rwanda. 

Ruxin is assistant clinical professor of Public Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the founder of Health Builders, which improves management systems in 86 health centers across Rwanda and has constructed 5 health facilities serving 150,000 people. 

He is director of the Access Project, Rwanda Works, and the Millennium Villages Project in Rwanda. Dr. Ruxin has extensive experience operating at the intersection of public health, business, and international development. He has led projects in several developing countries and was an advisor to government and private sector leaders on business strategy and economic development. 

Dr. Ruxin was a Truman Scholar at Yale University, where he received his undergraduate degree, and a Marshall Scholar at the University of London. He is currently based in Kigali, Rwanda.

Politics of Health is Clinton School topic today

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Today at noon at the Clinton School, Michael Sparer looks at “The Politics of Health: From the ACA to ACOs.” 

Michael Sparer studies and writes about the politics of health care, with a particular emphasis on the health insurance and health delivery systems for low-income populations, and the ways in which inter-governmental relations influences policy, both in the U.S. and abroad.

Dr. Sparer’s current projects include a review and analysis of lessons learned from thirty years of Medicaid managed care programs and a comparison of inter-governmental health politics in the U.S. and the UK.

He is also working on a book funded by the RWJ Investigator Program, which examines how American Federalism influenced the politics and substance of the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Deciding to Run for President is topic of Clinton School program tonight

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In 2009, then Governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels, embarked on a passionate, arduous, nearly two-year journey to make the most difficult decision of his life: whether or not to pursue the presidency of the United States. 

Tonight at 6pm at the Clinton School, Don Cogman, a corporate and governmental affairs executive, shares a story of what it takes to run for President of the United States, the choices a potential candidate faces, and the hard decisions a candidate must make during the process. 

“Run Mitch, Run” offers a compelling, chronological glimpse into Daniels’ quest to make the right decision for not only himself and his family, but also his country. He reveals intriguing, behind-the-scene details as Daniels, with the help of eight devoted individuals, wrestled with the pros and cons of a presidential run. 

Cogman is one of the leaders in the communications industry, with over thirty years of public relations, public affairs, advertising, and consulting experience in New York and Washington D.C. 

The Brown Sisters Speak:featuring Phyllis Brown and Minnijean Brown Trickey

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 Little Rock Central High School NHS invites you to upcoming community programs in commemoration and celebration of Women’s History Month.  

  

 

Saturday, March 14th – 1:30 to 3:00 P.M. 
Ron Robinson Theater
100 River Market Avenue
Little Rock, AR 72201 
501-320-5715

Phyllis Brown and Minnijean Brown Trickey will sit down for a candid conversation about their personal experiences with segregation and being catalysts for change.  Phyllis, social activist and former member of SNCC, and sister Minnijean, member of the Little Rock Nine and social justice advocate, will share their views on the reality of social control and their knowledge of spiritual violations during times of resistance.

 
Presented in partnership with our friends at Central Arkansas Library System and the Ron Robinson Theater.  


         photos courtesy of Wayne Newton,   Isaiah Trickey

Community Philanthropy and Public Service is focus of Clinton School lecture at noon

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As a Scholar in Residence at the Clinton School of Public Service Center on Community Philanthropy Antonia Hernández will present her research on “Community Philanthropy and Public Service; Practice models in giving, civic engagement and leadership.”

The program will start at noon at the Clinton School.

Hernandez is president and chief executive officer of the California Community Foundation. The California Community Foundation works to strengthen the capacity of the nonprofit sector in Los Angeles County so they can more effectively work toward improved quality of life for all Angelenos.

Nationally recognized for her commitment toward the betterment of underserved communities in Los Angeles and beyond, Antonia Hernández joined the California Community Foundation as president and chief executive officer in 2004.

Previously, Ms. Hernández was president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), a national nonprofit litigation and advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the civil rights of the nation’s Latinos through the legal system, community education, and research and policy initiatives.

An expert in philanthropy, civil rights and immigration issues, Ms. Hernández began her legal career as a staff attorney with the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice and worked as counsel to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary before joining MALDEF in 1981 as regional counsel in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Hernández is a member of the boards of directors of the national American Automobile Association, the Automobile Club of Southern California, Council on Foundations, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Grameen America and Blue Shield of California Foundation. She currently serves on the Commission on Presidential Debates, the Los Angeles 2020 Commission, the JFK Library Foundation Profile in Courage Award Committee and the UCLA Board of Advisors, among others. She is a frequent public speaker and has been awarded a number of honorary degrees and awards.

Ms. Hernández is a member of the State Bar of California, District of Columbia Bar, American Bar Association and the Mexican American Bar Association of Los Angeles and a is fellow of the American Law Institute. Ms. Hernández earned her B.A. in history at UCLA in 1970 and J.D. at the UCLA School of Law in 1974.